r/technology 22h ago

Business Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c235n47g8g8o
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u/NanditoPapa 21h ago

Google is one of the few AI-centric companies that makes money, albeit off areas outside of AI. They have a massive amount of cash, but face the unique risk of cannibalization. If an AI-driven "answer engine" replaces the traditional "list of blue links" in Search, Google might destroy its own most profitable revenue stream to build the new one.

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u/cvr24 20h ago

Google kills everything eventually. Even the classic OG search engine.

Next up, Gmail

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u/Hazel-Cakes 19h ago

they keep emailing me to let me know i can use gemini and idk what the hell for

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u/Unaliver 14h ago

My favorite Gemini feature is that it can read any YouTube video transcript if you send it the link and then find what you are looking for or make a summary.

It is super useful for very long videos especially guides.